Have you ever just had one of those days when nothing and I mean nothing went you way? Welcome to my Friday. If there was a light it was red, if there was a car driving in front of me it was slow, and when I went to the bank to deposit a check I had to wait 45 minutes! As my thoughts were beginning to boil I decided to switch my focus and calm down and here is what I thought.
You can’t choose what happens to you but you can choose how to react. So much of our life is wasted worrying and being anxious about things that we cannot change. I understand that many of you might be facing extremely hard times right now due to the economy. You may very well be stressed to the max wondering how am I going to make ends meet. But, let me tell you, from a guy who at the age of 27 has lost everything that he has owned twice, that you will survive. You will bounce back but in the meantime you are missing out on some of the greatest times of your life.
Your thoughts might be, “Greatest times of my life? My life is failing apart!”
When life does not go the way that you expect if you patiently endure the hardships that you are suffering you will develop great attributes to your character. My adopted grandma has a saying that has been passed down to me. When I had my business stolen from me, which caused me to file bankruptcy, which lead to foreclosure and me sleeping on the floor for the next year, Grandma Hardman’s wisdom said, “Just keep on living.”
I was stressed to the nth degree but now looking back that crisis developed more in me than it took away. So I tell you even though your thoughts may be running a million miles per hour thinking about all of the what ifs to “just keep on living”. You will be amazed were you find yourself a year from now.
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